Defending Dutch champions PSV Eindhoven are currently experiencing their worst season since 1980-81. This was calculated by Dutch magazine Voetbal International.

After 19 Eredivisie games, PSV have only collected 32 points. This makes the 2008-09 season the 12th-worst in history but the very worst in the last 29 years.

This season, PSV have won only nine league match and the Eindhoven outfit are already eliminated from European football and the domestic cup. In the Eredivisie, they currently occupy fifth place at 15 points from leaders AZ Alkmaar

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An Iraqi footballer who sought sanctuary in Australia as sectarianism ripped his home country apart is heading back down under after signing up with the Sydney-based Marconi Stallions.

Ali Abbas, one of the stars of the national side that won the Asian Cup in 2007, was one of three players who fled the national team s hotel in Australia just months after its euphoric triumph in Indonesia.

The attacking midfielder had talks with the Stallions at the time but returned to Iraq early in 2008, and after discussions with the Iraqi Football Union joined the Air Force Club in Baghdad.

I preferred to go back to Iraq to represent my former team, the Air Force, but the idea of professionalism is still ongoing, Abbas, who plans to fly to Australia on Friday, told AFP.

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Montreal twice rallied from two-goal deficits and beat Cincinnati 5-4 Saturday in Major League Soccer. 

Montreal trailed 2-0 after 14 minutes and 4-2 after 46 minutes, but Ahmed Hamdi scored twice in the final 16 minutes to give the home side a wild victory. 

In Nashville, Hany Mukhtar scored in the 10th, 13th and 16th minutes on the way to a 5-1 rout of Chicago Fire. 

The six-minute span was the second-shortest for a hat-trick in MLS history after LA Galaxy s Harut Karapetyan needed just five minutes to score three in a 1998 match.

OMG!

That s a hat trick for Hany Mukhtar within a six minute span!

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Gustavo Bou s team-leading seventh goal gave New England Revolution a 1-0 win at Atlanta United,…

Manchester City s pre-season preparations suffered a double blow on Wednesday as a friendly against Troyes was cancelled due to a change in quarantine rules and another fixture against Preston North End will now take place behind closed doors. 

City s plans of playing in France have been scrapped after the UK government announced that anybody arriving from the country must quarantine for a 10-day period. 

A City statement on the club s official website said:  Both clubs explored all avenues to be able to play the game, but the recent UK government changes to quarantine rules for travellers returning from France, has made the required restrictions too difficult to overcome.

Pep Guardiola s first-team squad will remain in Manchester and continue their pre-seaso…

Paris Saint-Germain coach Unai Emery has confirmed he will leave the club at the end of the season.

Emery joined the Parisian giants in June 2016 after leading Sevilla to three successive Europa League triumphs.

That European pedigree seduced PSG and their Qatari owners, for whom Champions League success remains the Holy Grail.

However, he has struggled to replicate that continental success at the Parc des Princes. Last season, PSG were the victims of a remarkable comeback from Barcelona, who overturned a 4-0 first-leg deficit to advance to the quarter-finals.

And they fell at the same last-16 stage again this term, this time to Real Madrid.

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Cristiano Ronaldo and Zinedine Zidane continued to make Champions League history as Real Madrid booked their place in yet another final.

The holders progressed 4-3 on aggregate against Bayern Munich after a 2-2 draw at the Santiago Bernabeu on Tuesday.

Zidane will become the third coach to lead a team into three consecutive finals when he takes Madrid to Kiev on May 26, following in the footsteps of Italians Marcello Lippi and Fabio Capello.

Ronaldo made his 152nd Champions League appearance in the second leg, moving past Barcelona icon Xavi to become the most-capped outfielder in the competition s history.

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Ryan Giggs will not rush into taking a managerial position and is happy to wait for the right opportunity.

Giggs ended his 29-year association with Manchester United last month and has been linked with a series of vacancies, most recently Hull City following the departure of Steve Bruce.

But the 42-year-old, who is currently playing in the Indian Premier Futsal League, is happy to bide his time before taking on a top job.

He told reporters: Obviously, I want to be a manager. Ever since I left school, I ve been at United so this is the first time in 25-26 years where I have gone into a pre-season not going to work.

I have been keeping myself busy coming here and doing some media work and I am quite happy and relaxed.

It is similar to when I fini…

Luciano Spalletti says Roma are keen to sign Tottenham defender Federico Fazio, but has made it clear the transfer is not a done deal just yet.

Roma want to add depth to their defence and have earmarked Fazio as the ideal addition.

The 29-year-old joined Tottenham from Sevilla in 2014, but he has failed to live up to expectations at the Premier League side and is no longer needed in London.

Fazio spent the second half of last season on loan at Sevilla and Spurs manager Mauricio Pochettino recently announced that the centre-back is not part of his plans for 2016-17.

The deal is not official yet, but we are keen to bring Fazio to Rome, Spalletti told reporters.

Signing him would give us some extra options in defence.

He has important cha…

Swansea goalkeeper Michel Vorm has admitted he would like to play for Manchester United.

The 29-year-old Dutchman has been linked with a move to Old Trafford after a number of impressive performances at the Liberty Stadium since moving from Utrecht in 2011.

But, while Vorm holds ambitions to play at a higher level, he is in no rush to leave Swansea just yet.

We would obviously all like to play for Manchester United, but I am still young for a goalkeeper and I have many good years ahead of me, he told The South Wales Evening Post.

It s my ambition to ply my trade in English football for as long as possible.

There have been many rumours and stories about me in the last few years, but I have never been in a position to turn down an offer and I love life at Swa…

Mexico coach Miguel Herrera has called for his side to be more aggressive as they bid to seal top spot in CONCACAF Gold Cup Group C by beating Trinidad and Tobago on Wednesday.

Herrera s men were held to a 0-0 draw by Guatemala on Monday but are still all-but assured of their place in the quarter-finals.

The six-time champions are second with four points, two points adrift of group leaders Trinidad. Guatemala  who face Cuba in their last group game are three points behind Mexico and would require victory over Cuba and a nine-goal swing in their favour in order to leapfrog Mexico and progress automatically.

Mexico will be guaranteed of qualification as one of the two best third-placed teams should Canada and El Salvador  who have inferior goal differences both …